posted in Articles, Stuff on Aug 28th, 2010
The last weeks I was tinkering around on an old HTTP proxy skript I wrote about one year ago. This script doesn’t contain any rocket science skills and you have the same or probably even more functionality with any other HTTP proxy. Implementing the server in PERL allows me to extend, modify and adjust it [...]
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posted in Articles, Stuff on Jul 25th, 2010
Nice article found on TechRepublic. Welcome to the future: cloud-based WPA cracking is here In 2008, I speculated about the future of distributed security cracking. That future has arrived, in the form of a $17 “cloud” based service provided through the efforts of a security researcher known as Moxie Marlinspike. It is effective against pre-shared [...]
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posted in Articles, Off topic, Stuff on Jan 20th, 2010
From time to time the documents I’ve stumbled uppon in the Internet or people recommended me and I’ve considered as interesting were put on the server and announced afterwards in the blog. Things that seem interesting to me may also be of your interest. The same thing with the software from other places. On the [...]
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posted in Articles, Reading material on Oct 2nd, 2009
Introduction This tutorial walks you through cracking WPA/WPA2 networks which use pre-shared keys. I recommend you do some background reading to better understand what WPA/WPA2 is. The Wiki links page has a WPA/WPA2 section. The best document describing WPA is Wi-Fi Security – WEP, WPA and WPA2. This is the link to download the PDF [...]
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posted in Articles, Stuff on Sep 29th, 2009
It’s about time the steady monologues are finally over and visitors can participate or start discussions themselves. I have to move away from my self-centered position where the topics are given to you. To do so I decided lately to install a forum software and offering you a place where we can talk about computer [...]
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posted in Articles on May 6th, 2009
In the first part of this series I wrote about the different ways how attackers propagate malware by sending an infectious executable file or an USB memory stick to their victims or let them pick up an infected file in a file sharing network like emule or bittorrent. In this article, as promised in the [...]
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posted in Articles on Apr 21st, 2009
In the first part of this series we had a closer look at the basic precondition how an attacker prepares his own computer to eliminate telltale traces when surfing the Internet. In this second part we will go into the details how they connect to the Internet anonymously without leaving a betraying IP address which [...]
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posted in Articles on Apr 15th, 2009
When analyzing the code of a Trojan horse it often contains methods and functions that can be assigned to typical function groups and modules. Even if the code and inner organisation seems to be chaotic and hard to understand because of its structureless appearance you can assign a function to at least one of these [...]
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posted in Articles on Apr 9th, 2009
As already mentioned in a previous posting I stumbled upon an old proxy server code that attracted my attention again. Driven by the same idea as at the first time, out of curiosity how the spammers and hackers do their job and who else is using this anonymizing srvices I modified and installed the script [...]
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posted in Articles on Apr 7th, 2009
It is a critical moment when hackers unleash their malware into the wild and have to get in touch with the outside world. They expose themselves for a short moment and risk to leave traceable tracks that may reveal their identity. We read and see regularly in the media malware is spreading successfully and unnoticed [...]
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